199 BULBS AND TUBEROUS-ROOTED PLANTS. 
While they succeed finely in broad sunlight, the warm 
sun of June, when they are in flower, quickly destroys 
the delic:te flowers. To guard against this, they should 
be slightly protected on the south and west. If they 
can be planted in moist ground, near the edge of a 
stream, perfection will be reached. If planted in good 
soil, they should be divided as often as once in three 
years, as they do not bloom as well when the roots be- 
come massed, possibly because they cannot get suffi- 
cient nourishment when in large clumps. A portion 
only, should be divided each year, as it takes one year 
to make strong crowns for the next year’s flowers. This 
species is also grown readily from seed, which should be 
sown in carly spring, in drills, as we sow peas; trans- 
plant the ‘following spring into rows three feet apart, 
the plants one foot apart in the rows. With good culti- 
vation, nearly every plant will flower the second year. 
A large mass of these seedlings, no two of which will be 
precisely alike, but all good, has no superior in the floral 
world. After the first flowers appear, such as are the 
feast desirable can be thrown out, giving the remainder 
a better chance to grow, which they will do so rapidly 
as to form a perfect mass in two years thereafter. 
ISMENE. 
See Peruvian Daffodil (Hymenocallis Amancaes), 
Page 157. 
IXIA. 
This interesting genus of Cape bulbs now includes 
about thirty species, and very many garden varieties, the 
result of cross-fertilization, a work that, in this case, has 
been unusually successful, as the size of the flowers has 
been materially increased without loss of vigor in the 
plant, or in the wonderful colors and markings of the 
flowers. Since the introduction of this genus, some 
twelve others have been formed out of it; im doi:zg t’.'s 
